Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP)

Joined October 2009
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28 Sep 2024
Applications open for two-year postdocs ($70K/yr) in research areas at IGPP/Scripps Oceanography/UC San Diego: igpp.ucsd.edu/about. Deadline 10/31/2024. PhD award after 10/31/20 & before 3/31/25. Apply at igpp.ucsd.edu/greenfoundatio…
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25 Sep 2024
Please join us October 25th at 3pm for the 2024 Walter Munk Annual Lecture celebrating the founding director of IGPP.  This year's presenter, UC Berkeley's Roland Burgman, will present "Learning from Water-driven Solid Earth Deformation and Seismicity." igpp.ucsd.edu/2024-walter-mu…
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7 Jun 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring JPL/Caltech senior research scientist Sue Smrekar who will present "Venus: A Once and Future Earth?" WED June 12, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/special-semina…
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IGPP at SIO retweeted
Join me in giving back in support of Scripps Polar Center, this #TritonGivingDay to help students of all backgrounds access a world-class education and push progress and innovation forward. When we come together, nothing is beyond us! tritongivingday.ucsd.edu/pag…
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8 May 2024
HUGE congratulation to Helen Fricker (@helenafricker)! NASA announced today that her proposal for the Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) program has been selected as 1 of 4 finalists in to be a part of NASA's Earth System Explorers Program. miragenews.com/nasa-seeks-pr…
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8 May 2024
For the next step of the proposal process, Fricker will lead a team of over 25 scientists to conduct one-year mission concept study. Ultimately 2 of the 4 finalists will be selected.
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IGPP at SIO retweeted
Scrippshenge returned last night! Photographers, including @UCSanDiego's @erikjep, gathered under Scripps Pier for a photo opportunity that happens twice a year, when the sunset perfectly aligns under the iconic pier. You may be able to see it tonight if the weather permits!
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2 May 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring SDSU's Matthew Weingarten (@mweingarten) who will share "Major Southern San Andreas Earthquakes Modulated by Lake-Filling Events" WED May 8, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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19 Apr 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring IGPP Director Peter Shearer who will share "Summer of '79: My Volcanic Encounters" Wednesday April 24, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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IGPP at SIO retweeted
Preprint alert! eartharxiv.org/repository/vi… Rapid earthquake-tsunami modeling: The multi-event, multi-segment complexity of the 2024 Mw 7.5 #Noto Peninsula Earthquake governs tsunami generation with @KutscheraFabian, @jiazhe868, @bar_oryan, @Jeremy_seismo & Wenyuan Fan @IGPP
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12 Apr 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring University of Arizona's Shay Gilpin who will share "A New Parametric Correlation Function for Geophysical Data Assimilation Applications" WED April 17, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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4 Apr 2024
Unable to catch Sylvain Barbot's presentation "The Constitutive Behavior of Rocks During the Seismic Cycle"? Catch it on the IGPP YouTube channel: youtu.be/-ULBBrdwzJE
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28 Mar 2024
“This is an unprecedented situation and a big deal,” said study lead author Duncan Agnew.
28 Mar 2024
For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. trib.al/BnHSIQt
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28 Mar 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring USC's Sylvain Barbot who will share "The Constitutive Behavior of Rocks During the Seismic Cycle" WEDNESDAY April 3, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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27 Mar 2024
Rapid ice melt in Greenland & Antarctica is flattening Earth's shape—as mass moves from the poles to the Equator—enough to slow its rotation. Duncan Agnew explains the ramifications in Nature: "A global timekeeping problem postponed by global warming." nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

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27 Mar 2024
Further discussion about Agnew's article is presented in the Nature article "Climate change has slowed Earth’s rotation — and could affect how we keep time" here: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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21 Mar 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring Milena Marjanović who will share "Insights into dike nucleation and eruption dynamics from high-resolution seismic imaging of magmatic system at the East Pacific Rise" WEDNESDAY Mar 27, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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19 Mar 2024
Kilb (@Kinect_with_Sci) & colleagues present turbidites value to paleo seismology despite the difficulties in characterizing & determining their source, in EOS article "Submarine Avalanche Deposits Hold Clues to Past Earthquakes.” eos.org/science-updates/subm…
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15 Mar 2024
IGPP invites you to its seminar featuring Vashan Wright (@DrVasshe) who will share "Findings and lessons learned while translating soft matter physics to Soft Earth materials" WEDNESDAY Mar 20, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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8 Mar 2024
IGPP invites you to its Seminar featuring postdoc Bar Oryan who will share "Megathrust locking encoded in subduction landscapes" WEDNESDAY Mar 13, 3pm. More info: igpp.ucsd.edu/seminar-series…
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